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Thursday, September 30, 2010

S. Chandrasekhar and his attempts to get away from Astrophysics

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I went back to Nobel Laureate S. Chandrasekhar’s biography a few months back after 17 years. Chandra written by Kameshwar Wali was a birthd...
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

My most favorite YouTube video and the marvels & the flaws of intuition

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Chances are high your most favorite YouTube video is very different from mine in its form and content. Mine is neither a funny clip nor a mu...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Vinay Deolalikars proof of P=NP and the power of "web-test"

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There are several ways of making a million dollars. One way suggested by Warren Buffett is to start with a billion dollars and invest them i...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Entering the game-changer funnel: story of SAP Labs India

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When Boria Majumdar, the cricket expert (he has a PhD on history of cricket from Oxford !) was invited to give a talk at SAP Labs Gurgaon, l...
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Monday, August 2, 2010

Lessons from Einstein’s career progression at Swiss Patent Office

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Imagine you have got a game-changing idea. You prototype it in your spare time and the demo get appreciated by a few people including a VP a...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Acharya Jagadis Chandra Bose: The father of systematic experimentation in India

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Thanks to the gift we got from Prof. Dipan Ghosh during our visit at IIT Bombay (alma mater of me & my wife) I got an opportunity to see...
Monday, July 19, 2010

1930: The year when Benjamin Graham re-discovered “Margin of safety”

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1930 was the year when the Great Depression was in its infancy and Warren Buffett was born. It was also the year when Warren ’s guru Benjami...